Organ building Hörl

Organ builder Karsten Hörl (2010)

Orgelbau Hörl - workshop for artistic organ building was a German organ building company from Bavaria based in Helmbrechts in Upper Franconia .

history

The tradition of organ building in the Hofer Land has existed with the Silbermann student Johann Nikolaus Ritter , his partner Johann Jakob Graichen, his student Friedrich Heidenreich and his son Eberhard since the 18th century. The organ builder and organist Karsten Hörl continued this tradition .

Karsten Hörl completed his apprenticeship as an organ builder with Georg Jann, successor Thomas Jann organ building with a focus on intonation and pipe production . He then worked as a voicer for an organ building company in Austria . From 1999 he worked as a self-employed organ builder and in 2005 founded his own company based in Helmbrechts in the Hof district . Hörl was the owner and managing director.

The instruments that Orgelbau Hörl looked after included a. the Johannes-Strebel - organ of St. Michael in Stadtsteinach (II / P / 27), the organ of the catholic town church St. Marien in Hof an der Saale (II / P / 24), built in 1885 by Steinmeyer , restoration Klais 1994 / 1995, the organ of the Catholic parish church St. Konrad in Hof (II / P / 25), built in 1957 by Steinmeyer and the organ of the Catholic branch church St. Johannes Nepomuk in Feilitzsch , built in 1998 by Klais (I / P / 10) with unequal Vallotti mood . From 1999 to 2016 he was in charge of the organ of the Waldsassen Abbey Basilica (VI / P / 101).

In spring 2020, in the wake of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vogtländischer Orgelbau Thomas Wolf from Limbach took over the holdings of the organ building company Hörl.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
2004	Weißenbrunn ( Kirchenthumbach )	cath. Pilgrimage Church of St. Laurentius		II / P	19th	Opus 1, new building
2006	Mitterteich	cath. City parish church of St. Jakob		III / P	55	Opus 2, new building. The work can also be found as Opus 159 at Organ Builder Anton Škrabl
2008	Enchenreuth	cath. Church of St. James the Elder		II / P	13	Renovation of the organ by GF Steinmeyer & Co. (1885), renewed by Hey Orgelbau (1975)
2010	court	cath. St. Otto Church		II / P	12	Renovation of the Walcker organ (1969)
2012	court	ev.-luth. St. Lorenz Church		II / P	20th	Renovation of the Walcker organ (1965)
2016	Oberkotzau	cath. Church of St. Anthony		II / P	20th	Renovation of the organ by Erich Bauer (1974)
2016	Immenreuth	cath. Sacred Heart Church		II / P	14th	Renovation of the organ by Hermann Kloss (1978)
2017	court	cath. St. Pius Church		II / P	18th	Renovation of the organ by Hermann Kloss (1982)
2018	Schwarzenbach on the Saale	cath. Church of St. Francis		II / P	17th	Renovation of the organ by Orgelbau Eisenbarth (1976)
2018	Peesten	ev.-luth. Marienkirche		II / P	14th	renovation
2019	Issigau	ev.-luth. Simon Judas Church		II / P	15th	Renovation of the organ by W. Baumgartner (1983) behind the prospectus by Friedrich Heidenreich (1798)

media

literature

• Ludger Stühlmeyer : A mirror of the art of instrument making - Orgelbau Hörl . In: The music history of the city of Hof . (Phil. Diss. Münster .) Heinrichs-Verlag, Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 , pp. 180f.
• Barbara Stühlmeyer : How do you build an organ - Interview with organ builder Karsten Hörl . In: Karfunkel , Zeitschrift für Erlebbaren Geschichte No. 81, Wald-Michelbach 2009, ISSN  0944-2677 , pp. 105f.

Sound carrier

• Hörl organ - St. Jakob Mitterteich. Tritone, Hof 2007.
• Praise and praise the Lord you peoples. Choir and organ music from the parish church of St. Jakob in Mitterteich . Tritone, Hof 2007.

Web links

• Website of Orgelbau Hörl , accessed on June 5, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer: Curia sonans. The music history of the city of Hof . Heinrichsverlag, Bamberg 2010, p. 180.
2. ↑ klais.de: Hof ad Saale, St. Marien , accessed on June 4, 2019.
3. ^ Website Vogtland organ building